HIGH SCHOOL BASEBALL: Waynesboro holds off Gettysburg 9-6

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Apr 17, 2013 at 10:00 AM

Waynesboro played from a 6-1 lead on Tuesday and staved off a Gettysburg rally in the top of the seventh inning to preserve a 9-6 varsity baseball win.

Lee Goodwin

WAYNESBORO — Waynesboro played from a 6-1 lead on Tuesday and staved off a Gettysburg rally in the top of the seventh inning to preserve a 9-6 varsity baseball win.In a game that featured some improvisation by head coach Greg Chandler after shortstop Alex Cline left the game due to injury and a combined 25 hits by both teams, the Indians benefited from a six-run first inning.Waynesboro improves to 5-0 Mid-Penn Colonial Division with a game at Greencastle-Antrim on Thursday to close out the first half of the league season. The Blue Devils are 3-1 in the division with a game today at James Buchanan before tomorrow’s matchup with Waynesboro.“We planned on using Alex in relief and he went down,” Chandler said. “We had to rethink ourselves on the fly. We ran into a lineup pickle when Alex went down.”John Barr pitched the first three innings, and instead of going with Cline in relief, Chandler put in Dylan Bryan for three innings before closing the game with Seth Hoffman for the final inning.The Warriors put together a run in the final inning, scoring three runs on three hits, a walk and a hit batsman and had the tying run at the plate. Hoffman fielded a ground ball and threw to first baseman Ben Weber to end the game.After Gettysburg posted a run in the top of the first inning, Waynesboro batted around plus one in the bottom of the inning, scoring six runs on four hits, three walks and two errors.Cole Warrenfeltz led off the inning with a walk and Brandon Yurek also drew a free pass. Barr followed with a single to score Warrenfeltz and advanced to second on a bobbled ball in the outfield. Cline then delivered a two-run single and scored himself when Tim Ingram tripled. Courtesy runner James Bennett scored on a ground out and Clay Eberhardt walked and scored on an error.From there, the Indians run production fell off but Gettysburg, which lost out on two golden scoring opportunities in the first with one runner tagged out at the plate and another caught in a rundown between third and home, had plenty of baserunners but couldn’t get them home.The Warriors scored a run in the second but left the bases loaded as Barr struck out the side. Barr set down Gettysburg in order in the third, and Waynesboro scored its seventh run in the bottom of the inning when Ingram led off with a walk and Bennett scored on a single by Hoffman.The Tribe scored single runs in the fifth and sixth inning, with Warrenfeltz driving in Eberhardt on a sacrifice fly in the fifth and Barr getting on with a single and scoring on a base hit by Dylan Bryan in the sixth.“We hit the ball well at times,” Chandler said. “We have to start hitting all the way through the lineup. We’re not playing the best baseball right now, but we’re finding ways to win.”Barr, Weber, Ingram and Hoffman each had two hits for the Indians, which had 12 hits in the game.

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